2nd October 2006, 11:29 PM
Rach
I guess this would depend on several main factors
a) which Uni are you studying (Partying) at? They may have GIS software that you are unaware of, I did my UG at Bradford and they had ArcGIS which I was unaware of until my final year, had to teach myself to use it though and its a steep learning curve.
b) How accurate do you wish your plots to be? If you are simply depicting general areas then I see no need to use a GIS package as there are many pieces of Geographic "ClipArt" freely available that you can simply put dots onto.
c.) Does your Uni subscribe to Edinburgh Universities digital map library? Bradford didnt while I was there and believe me you would freak if you knew the costs involved in getting OS maps in digital form that you can use in GIS, and lets not get into copyright issues
If you feel that you need to go the GIS route I have GIS compliant shape files of the UK, with county boundaries added and any spatial data you get from HER etc will be plotted accurately within them. If you want to try this and you can get access to the software You can contact me by email and I will try to send them to you as attachments, they will work with either ArcGIS or MapInfo.
Good luck with the diss
Vive La Revolution
Penfold
I guess this would depend on several main factors
a) which Uni are you studying (Partying) at? They may have GIS software that you are unaware of, I did my UG at Bradford and they had ArcGIS which I was unaware of until my final year, had to teach myself to use it though and its a steep learning curve.
b) How accurate do you wish your plots to be? If you are simply depicting general areas then I see no need to use a GIS package as there are many pieces of Geographic "ClipArt" freely available that you can simply put dots onto.
c.) Does your Uni subscribe to Edinburgh Universities digital map library? Bradford didnt while I was there and believe me you would freak if you knew the costs involved in getting OS maps in digital form that you can use in GIS, and lets not get into copyright issues
If you feel that you need to go the GIS route I have GIS compliant shape files of the UK, with county boundaries added and any spatial data you get from HER etc will be plotted accurately within them. If you want to try this and you can get access to the software You can contact me by email and I will try to send them to you as attachments, they will work with either ArcGIS or MapInfo.
Good luck with the diss
Vive La Revolution
Penfold